Now refresh the info.php page that you have open in your browser and you should be able to see the support for mysql if you search for it by doing Ctrl+f, but before that don’t forget to restart apache again (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart)

Finally we’ll install phpmyadmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

It would ask if you want to configure it automatically for apache or lightppd choose apache (make sure that the * shows in front of it, you have to press spacebar) and press Ok. It would be automatically configured, it would also ask for configuring database, choose yes and on next screen you would be asked to enter the MySQL root password (which you set in first step), next it would ask you to enter a password to be used by phpmyadmin to register with the database (basically it would create a user called “phpmyadmin” the password is for that. You can even choose to assign a random password for it. Once you have made your choice the installation would finish

and you should be able to access phpmyadmin by pointing your web browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

You might need to restart apache again for the above link to start working ( I didn’t need to)!

Thanks for this, just starting off learning PHP as my 1st scripting language and it’s also my 1st attempt at using linux (hence taking the easy option and going with Mint 11.) Would never have gotten it up and running without it!